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The study of the Bible has long included a literary aspect with great attention paid not only to what was written but also to how it was expressed. The detailed analysis of biblical books and passages as written texts has benefited from the study of literature in classical philology, ancient rhetoric, and modern literary criticism. Literary Approaches to the Bible introduces the various ways the...

The methods of rhetorical and narrative criticism comprise a very broad portion of modern biblical criticism. Broadly defined, these are both text-oriented approaches to biblical interpretation that emphasize literary reading strategies attentive to a composition’s style, structure, and communicative goals. The general approach is given many labels, including stylistics, poetics, literary artistry, aesthetics, or rhetoric.1 This overview
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